Dairy
Drink Style
Drink-style buttermilk covers seasoned and regional buttermilk beverages—plain, salted, spiced, herb, and South Asian chaas, moru, and majjige. They are meal drinks and heat-beaters more than baking ingredients. Serve ice-cold with meals. Spices and salt transform plain buttermilk into street and home classics across India and beyond.
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Nutrition
Typical values per 100 g edible portion. Nutrient names open the reference page.
Nutrition Facts
Per 100 g edible portion
Amount per 100 g
- Total Fat 10.1 g
- Saturated Fat 5.72 g
- Trans Fat 0.3 g
- Monounsaturated Fat 2.94 g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 0.31 g
- Cholesterol 30.8 mg
- Sodium 77.2 mg
- Salt 0.2 g
- Total Carbohydrate 4.75 g
- Dietary Fibre 0 g
- Total Sugars 4.99 g
- Complex / starch 0 g
- Protein 8.46 g
- Water 68.9 g
- Energy 141 kcal
- Water 68.9 g
- Carbohydrates 4.75 g
- Sugars 4.99 g
- Protein 8.46 g
- Fat 10.1 g
- Saturated Fat 5.72 g
- Monounsaturated Fat 2.94 g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 0.31 g
- Omega-3 0.03 g
- Trans Fat 0.3 g
- Vitamins 29.5 mg
- Vitamin A 15 µg
- Vitamin B1 — Thiamine 0.04 mg
- Vitamin B2 — Riboflavin 0.2 mg
- Vitamin B3 — Niacin 0.1 mg
- Vitamin B5 — Pantothenic Acid 0.39 mg
- Vitamin B6 0.05 mg
- Vitamin B7 — Biotin 1.9 µg
- Vitamin B9 — Folate 7.5 µg
- Vitamin B12 — Cobalamin 1.2 µg
- Vitamin C 2 mg
- Vitamin D 0.5 µg
- Vitamin E 0.09 mg
- Vitamin K 0.5 µg
- Minerals 439 mg
- Major Minerals 437 mg
- Trace Minerals 1.5 mg
- Iron 1.5 mg
- Salt 0.2 g
- Cholesterol 30.8 mg
Vitamins
vitamin-c: 2 · vitamin-b12-cobalamin: 1.2 · vitamin-a: 15 · vitamin-b1-thiamine: 0.04 · vitamin-b2-riboflavin: 0.2 · vitamin-b3-niacin: 0.1 · vitamin-b5-pantothenic-acid: 0.39 · vitamin-b6: 0.05 · vitamin-b7-biotin: 1.9 · vitamin-b9-folate: 7.5 · vitamin-d: 0.5 · vitamin-e: 0.09 · vitamin-k: 0.5 ·
Minerals
Drink Style of Buttermilk: composition reflects this culinary part relative to the whole ingredient.
History
Spiced buttermilk drinks cooled South Asian meals for millennia.
Salted and spiced buttermilk drinks remained everyday table beverages.
Packaged chaas and spiced buttermilk entered urban retail.